A soccer club sent an email regarding the location of soccer practice. Declude appeared to catch it because of a yahoo map link to the soccer fields. It would seem to be a common practice for someone to use a map link for directions. Copy of logfile below.
How do we prevent this from happening in the future? I do not have any clout with Yahoo so I doubt I could get them to change their nomenclature.
Unfortunately, filenames longer than 256 characters are very unsafe. If Yahoo chooses to use filenames greater than 256 characters, they need to understand that their E-mails are going to be blocked. It sounds like Yahoo just changed their file naming system.
Note that it is fine for them to have a *link* that is longer than 256 characters, it is only the filename that has the problem. In this case, the filename was "overviewmap_OVMAPDATA=Ypg91eR32XWTWSco9NwX6snk0KVRpsRh.tpax9mLk" followed by at least
158 more characters.
In general, if the average person isn't going to be able to type a filename without making a typo after a few tries, it shouldn't be used as a filename.
-Scott
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